Club case study : Wolverton Rotary Club - Zulu project

Report by John Moss, The President of Wolverton Club

8 November 2001

The Rotary Club of Wolverton has taken up a request from the Rotary Club of Eshowe to fund a project to provide water and sanitation facilities for three schools in Zululand (the Eshowe project). We need to raise £18,000 and will need all the help we can get.

Our association with the Eshowe club is an interesting one with historic connections to Stony Stratford. (Wolverton RC meet in Stony Stratford).  We have in the past funded some of the classrooms that have now formed schools and when one of our members, who is South African, visited the Club in Eshowe last year, they asked Wolverton to help them once more and to fund a water supply and proper sanitation for three schools.

    
Photos:  Left: A typical School before our help   Right: Toilets under construction

One of our fundraising ideas is to publish a book of e-mail jokes. To sell at £2.99, the book will contain some of the best jokes going around and will be called ''Dot Comedy', a collection of he-he mails'' You will realise that we need to sell a lot of books and we are hoping to sell all 3000.

We will have an interesting 'power point' presentation of the construction of the water supplies at similar schools and of the history of Wolverton's connection with Eshowe available to be presented at District Conference next year.

 Photo below: Zulu Children enjoying clean water

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